Forgotten Lands and Lost Civilizations1

Have you ever wonder what happens to the land if mankind abandons it? How it will slowly decay into its original form. The sharp corners of civilization will smooth over time; the recognisable shapes of progress will become indistinguishable from the mother earth landscapes. Everything loses its meaning, from the human point of view, everything becomes alien and hostile. I think that ones you leave a place that you have lived in and have been attached to, leave it the fastest way possible. Never turn back and do not believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.1995 year, Oil x Canvas, aprox. 100x80 centimeters, St. Petersburg, signed as Y. Gribanovsky, Private collection
George Grie, May 1995